Hanscom News: Other Airlines Consider Hanscom

• 8/8/2007 Globe: Maine Aviation Aircraft Charter, a Portsmouth N.H. based jet charter service, plans to launch two daily round trips between Hanscom Field and Morristown, N.J., next month.

• 10/14/04 Portsmouth Herald: A U.S. District Court judge has found that Pan Am Airlines illegally attempted to transfer its passenger service to Boston-Maine Airways with the intention of busting the Airline Pilots Association union and has put a stop to that process.

• 3/31/04 Bedford Minuteman: Boston-Maine Airways begins operations at Hanscom.

• 3/24/04 Bedford Minuteman: Two more airlines have been talking to Massport about starting operations at Hanscom.

• 2/20/04 Globe, Bedford Minuteman: Boston-Maine Airways says it will resume service at Hanscom on March 25 with service to Trenton NJ. Massport admits to seeking out airlines to replace Shuttle America.

• 4/3/03 Globe, Bedford Minuteman: Boston-Maine Airways, which has been seldom seen at Hanscom Field since introducing limited service last summer, now says it is departing the airport for good.

• 2/23/03 Globe: Despite an all time low of 2 passengers total in January, Boston-Maine Airways will add service to the Cape and the Islands in March.

• 1/2/03 Globe: Although plagued by relatively few passengers since beginning service at Hanscom Field last July, Boston-Maine Airways now says it will remain there, looking for things to pick up in the spring. 

• 12/15/02 Globe: Boston-Maine Airways will decide by the end of the month whether to continue an abbreviated schedule at Hanscom Field or fly away to a more viable venue.

• 8/19/02 Globe: Boston-Maine Airways has been getting very little demand for their service from Hanscom to Martha's Vineyard. Vineyard resident blasts poor service of the airline.

• 5/26/02 Globe, Herald: Boston-Maine Airways will launch its Hanscom Field service June 28 with one round trip to Newark N.J. Twenty additional operations will follow shortly.

• 5/12/02 Globe: Boston-Maine Airways is filing flight plans for 16 daily operations from Hanscom to Newark and Martha's Vineyard, beginning June 28.

• 4/14/02 Globe: Boston-Maine Airways has again shelved plans for serving Hanscom Field, rejecting requests for certain documents by the Massachusetts Port Authority, owner-operator of the airfield, although Massport spokesman Richard Walsh said if at any time Boston-Maine ''wants to comply with our requirements for serving Hanscom, we would welcome them with open arms."

• 2/3/02 Globe: Boston-Maine Airways is withdrawing its inaugural flight plans for Hanscom Field next month. This is a victory for our towns!

• 1/27/02 Globe: Boston-Maine Airways' plans to begin service in March at Hanscom Field are on hold because the airport is nearing the limit of 48 commercial flights a day mandated by a 1995 environmental study.

• 12/19/01 Boston-Maine: Boston-Maine Airways received final approval from the FAA to commence scheduled passenger air service. Its plans include service to Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard and Cape Cod from Hanscom Field.

• 9/7/01 Boston Business Journal: Boston-Maine Airways, an airline that recently proposed service at Hanscom Field, has been awarded a one year contract by the FAA to provide service between the FAA's Technical Center in Atlantic City and Washington, D.C.

• 8/18/01 Herald, Globe: The head of the FAA has denied that it will hold an airline seeking to fly out of Hanscom Field in Bedford to stricter environmental reviews than normally required of airlines seeking to launch service from other airports.

• 8/15/01 Herald: Midway Airlines preliminary plans to fly three daily trips between Hanscom and Raleigh-Durham "would be canceled for the foreseeable future."

• 8/14/01 AP, Herald: Midway Airlines says it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, reduced flights and laid off half its employees in the face of plunging business travel.

• 8/12/01 Globe: Save Our Heritage and CARE (the group fighting the new Logan runway) applaud the FAA's decision.

• 8/11/01 Globe: FAA intends to require an environmental assessment and/or a Section 106 review before allowing additional commercial service at Hanscom. Important news, but several letters to the editor noted the extreme slant of this Matthew Brelis article.

• 7/19/01 Herald: Bankrupt Shuttle America dropped service to Greensboro after creditors took back planes, leaving them with only three.

• 7/4/01 Herald: Federal rail officials will test the Boston - Maine rail link at higher speeds, despite hampering efforts by Boston/Maine Airway's parent corporation.

• 6/23/01 Herald: Guilford Industries, owner of Boston/Maine Airways, is hampering the debut of faster rail service between Boston and Portland, Maine.

• 6/22/01 Herald: Massport approved controversial flights from Hanscom Field to Cape Cod by Boston/Maine Airways, an affiliate of Pan-Am Corp. 

• 6/14/01 Lexington Minuteman: Letter to the editor credits community involvement and participation for US Airways decision to rethink their move to Hanscom.

• 6/7/01 Bedford Minuteman: HFAC will make a 3 part recommendation to Massport, first asking that an environmental review be performed before Pan Am is allowed to begin Hanscom service. 

• 6/7/01 Globe, Concord Journal, Herald, Lowell Sun: Follow-up articles on US Airways decision to drop Hanscom plans. Also check out a resident's letter pointing out the irony of Massport's claim that the recent process was not democratic.

• 6/6/01 US Airways, Globe, WBZ: US Airways has decided not to serve Hanscom Field because of community concern over new flights. Massport says it will focus on bringing more service to Worcester Airport, which is better suited for increased traffic. Our concerns are being heard!

• 5/24/01 Town Online: Three protesters describe why, after years of fruitless attempts at reasoned dialog with Massport, it was time to remind them that people are angry and determined to fight Hanscom expansion. Another citizen asks people who use Hanscom to reconsider the harmful long term consequences of their actions.

• 5/16/01 WBZ, Town Online, Herald, Lowell Sun: The 300-500 citizens attending last night's HFAC meeting were clearly frustrated and angry about recent expansion plans, as they peppered airline executives and Massport with questions and finally forced a halt to the meeting with chants and loud protests. Some lamented that "years of polite discourse has gotten us nowhere."

• 5/15/01 Herald, Globe: Shuttle America plans to relaunch their Hanscom to LaGuardia service on June 15, and US Airways has upped their Hanscom service plans from 6 operations/day to 14. Total proposed commercial operations/day is now 70, well above the 48 limit studied in the 1995 GEIR. Massport says it "will not be an obstacle to airlines flying out of Hanscom Field".

• 5/2/01 Globe, Herald, Lowell Sun: US Airways has become the third airline in the last two weeks to express interest in adding service at Hanscom Field. They hope to offer 3 daily flights from Hanscom to Philadelphia using 37 seat Dash-8 aircraft, and could start as early as August.

• 5/22/01 USA Today: US Airways lost $269 million last year and $228 million in the first quarter of this year. Its merger with United has stalled.

• 4/27/01 Herald, Metrowest: Coverage of our protest in Concord Center on March 26 of Midway and Pan Am plans, where "Paul Revere" rode by on horseback to warn us that "Massport is coming, Massport is coming!" Thanks to all who came out to the protest.

• 4/26/01 Herald: More details of Midway and Pan Am proposed 22 operations per day at Hanscom.

• 4/25/01 Lincoln Journal: Local officials speak out against the proposed Midway and Pan Am service at Hanscom, while Massport paints it as part of their regionalization effort and says "don't count out Shuttle America".

• 4/21/01 Herald: Save Our Heritage calls on the FAA to do the required environmental review before approving any requests from Midway or Pan Am, and also warns the airlines that there will be significant community opposition. 

• 4/18/01 Globe & Herald, Concord Journal, Metrowest Daily News: More coverage of the Shuttle America bankruptcy and the Midway and Pan Am interest in adding service at Hanscom. Also read the Trenton newspapers' version of this news.

• 4/17/01 HFAC: Massport reports that two new airlines have expressed an interest in providing commercial service at Hanscom. Midway Airlines wants to add 50-seat jet service to Raleigh-Durham (read their letter to Massport), and Pan Am has expressed interest in offering 19-seat service to Cape Cod and the Islands starting as early as June 1. Massport is encouraging both services as long as the total number of commericial operations stays within the 48 per day upper bound covered by the 1995 environmental impact report (GEIR) for Hanscom.

• The January 2001 issue of Boston Magazine reported that FedEx is again talking about using Hanscom as a base for their delivery business.

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